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I had bought Sony CyberShot DSC-W55 and after making one series of pictures I had to charge a battery. After charging camera hadn't been used for around 1 week. When I was trying to take some pictures again it showed me that battery is dead (which was fully charged). After repeated charging situation remain the same.
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Thanks in advance.
Pawel

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